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June 19, 2020

U.S. Insurers Eye Legionnaires’ Disease Safeguards as Buildings Re-Open From Pandemic Shutdowns

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/, June 18, 2020 Commercial insurers are scrutinizing building managers’ efforts to avoid outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease as they re-open movie theaters, gyms, schools and offices that had been closed for months due to the coronavirus pandemic, industry sources told Reuters. Legionnaires’ disease is a severe, sometimes-lethal form of pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacteria […]

June 19, 2020

Michigan Collects 30k Gallons of Toxic PFAS Firefighting Foam

Source: https://www.aviationpros.com/, June 18, 2020 By: Garret Ellison More than 30,000 gallons of toxic fluorochemical foam has been collected from municipal fire departments and commercial airports in Michigan in an effort that state officials believe is the nation’s largest collection and disposal program of its type. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy […]

June 19, 2020

Sanimax reaches deal in class-action lawsuit over South St. Paul odor

Source: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN), June 18, 2020 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Shortly after LeAnne Renteria and her husband moved to South St. Paul in 2003, they got their first whiff of what gave the city its blue-collar reputation and “Cow Town” moniker: the stockyards. But when the yards closed in April 2008, a stench […]

June 19, 2020

DEQ cites Chemours for illegal dumping of PFAS-contaminated soil

Source: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/, June 19, 2020 By: Lisa Sorg Chemours could be fined after state environmental regulators cited the company for dumping soil and tree roots likely contaminated with perfluorinated compounds into an unlined landfill. The NC Department of Environmental Quality found that Chemours failed to test the material for PFAS contamination before transporting multiple loads of […]

June 18, 2020

The Miller Law Firm Recovers $16.3 Million for Candlestick Neighborhood Associations

Source: https://stockhouse.com/, June 16, 2020 The Miller Law Firm has recovered an additional $8,300,000 against major Bay Area builder Signature Homes for the Candlestick Cove Homeowners’ Association. This brings The Miller Law Firm’s total recovery for three Candlestick neighborhood associations with construction defects in excess of $16 Million. Read more.

June 18, 2020

Cleanup of former Clark Station site well underway

Source: https://www.gmtoday.com/, June 18, 2020 The village this week shared an update on the former Clark Station site that has stood vacant at the corner of Washington Street and 11th Avenue since the middle of 2016. Cleanup has officially started at the site and soil excavation has been completed. The building will soon be demolished, […]

June 17, 2020

Crews begin to tear down UMKC’s troubled student housing — 12 years after it opened

Source: https://www.kansascity.com/, June 16, 2020 By: Mara Rose Williams Work crews are taking the first steps to tear down the shuttered Oak Place Apartments at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, a 12-year-old building riddled with leaky pipes, sagging floors and mold. The university determined in February that the student residence at 5050 Oak St. was […]

June 17, 2020

LAUSD says recycler is endangering Jordan High students with ‘sharp metal projectiles’

Source: https://www.latimes.com/, June 17, 2020 By: Tony Barboza The Los Angeles Unified School District filed suit against a metal recycling facility adjacent to Jordan High School in Watts, alleging it has endangered students and teachers by releasing sharp pieces of metal, smoke, fumes and more onto school grounds. The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court […]

June 16, 2020

Consent decree requires cleanup of mining contamination in Butte, Montana

Source: https://www.watertechonline.com/, June 12, 2020 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Justice Department announce the lodging today of a proposed consent decree in federal District Court that would require Atlantic Richfield to undertake or finance over $150 million of clean-up work at the Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (BPSOU) site in Montana. This […]

June 15, 2020

Driller charged over contamination in ‘Gasland’ town

Source: https://www.startribune.com, June 15, 2020 By: Michael Rubinkam An energy company faces felony charges for polluting residential water wells in a Pennsylvania community that has long been a battleground in the national debate over natural gas drilling and fracking. Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. was charged Monday following a grand jury investigation that found […]

June 15, 2020

Air Force to clean up contamination of Oscoda base after pushback

Source: https://www.detroitnews.com/, June 13, 2020 By: Sarah Rahal The Air Force Civil Engineer Center announced it is awarding a contract in July that will expand capture zones to better control migration of PFAS contaminants from a former air force base in Oscoda following pushes from politicians. The Air Force announced the contract Friday with plans […]

June 11, 2020

Chubb not obligated to defend building operator in pesticide case

Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com/, June 10, 2020 By: Judy Greenwald A Chubb Ltd. unit is not obligated to defend a building operator sued in connection with spraying pesticides because of its coverage’s pollution exclusion, said a federal appeals court Wednesday, in upholding a lower court ruling. Oklahoma City-based MHJ Properties Ltd. was sued in state court by […]

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